RESEARCH PROPOSAL ON EXPLORING THE EFFECT OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES ON SPORTS PARTICIPATION
Introduction This research paper has the intension to investigate the effect of the Olympic Games on sport participation especially for primary school children. This paper will identify the target population, the sampling methods used, methods of data collection and methods of administration. Thus help the city of Edinburgh council to have a general picture of following points: 1) Provide a detailed mapping of the current level of sports participation and the intention for the future 2) Identify the aspects of the games that have been most memorable/ produced greatest impression 3) Explore potential association between impressions from the games and future sports activities. The council is concerned that the findings should be representative of the Edinburgh school children in general, and suggests that age, gender, existing level of sports engagement being important predictors of research result. To generalize from the sample to the population, the sample has to be representative of the population. Observation before the survey I plan to begin with exploratory qualitative techniques: observation of selected primary students to understand the problem and bringing to the surface issues in the research project. This activity often help crystallize the problem or otherwise open the researcher’s eyes to factors and considerations that might be overlooked if he rushed into a full-scale survey. The qualitative phase serves as a foundation for the quantitative phase of the research project because it provides the researches with first-hand knowledge. The reason why I choose observation method is that it has advantage of seeing what population actually do instead of relying on their self-report of what they think they do. Sometimes data can be obtained at less cost and more accurate by